Alcoa's Hometown Footprint Is Shrinking

ALCOA, Tenn.—Since 1913, the men in Eric Everett's family have worked for Alcoa Inc., the firm that built their town. Mr. Everett ticks off the jobs: brick mason, smelter foreman, welder, truck mechanic.

Mr. Everett, an accounting manager, is the first in his family to have a white-collar Alcoa job. He is also first to work in a town no longer dominated by the aluminum giant.